The good thing about times like this is...

Sounds like Austin might be going into terminator mode …

Austin said he talked to as many players as he could and pledged to get better.

“I told them, ’I’m going to do everything I can to make it up to you guys and continue to fight,’ " Austin said.

Austin said his overall game — two catches for 12 yards and the two penalties — was one of the most disappointing of his career.

“When good things happen, those are things you’ll remember,” Austin said. “When bad things happen, those are things you’ll never forget. It’s one of those things I’ll never forget. I’ll never put us in a position like that ever again.”

an OG cowboys fan from the time of troy hambrick

I’ll watch every game and root for them to win as if it’s the SB. But thats just me…..it’s called being a loyal dedicated fan, something a lot of fans are not.

If we fail to make the playoffs, I’ll accept what moves Jones make in the off season and go on from there. Been that way since ’75 and refuse to change.

i wish we could put this on the front page. The quality of the comments on this site have just been awful lately.

The Cowboys will beat the Giants next week. Book it!!

This is where fandom begins in earnest. Well done goldnboi7. Rec’d

Good, bad, and ugly, I ain’t stopping now.

has been a major downer. My wife felt so bad for me she promptly went out and bought me more Cowboy attire. What a lady….

but you have to keep the faith. Here’s to hoping that the team pulls together and makes a run towards the playoffs. If we can manage 9-2 or 8-3 for the remaining games, we would be a scary team in the playoffs.

But someone still needs to slap the crap out of Joe DeCamillis for the consist piss poor special teams play all season. However, after that is done; we still are a capable team. Lets just beat the G-Girls.

This season I felt BTB posters were getting more and more DMN like, but this post feels like a rally to restore sanity that is only missing Jon Stewart.

These losses suck, especially being close to Houston which is full of Texan bandwagoners/Cowboy haters, but I will never lose faith.

Even though a fan wants a coach gone, don’t just keep reiterating it, no change is happening. Instead, look at talented, young coordinators like Jets OC Brian Schottenheimer( who runs a same style offense, but is more effective and he actually will be able to recognize quality O lineman- just saying)

GO COWBOYS!

like i said I love this team, im a lifelong fan no matter how bad it gets
im 26 i remember the glory days of the 90’s but im also old enough to remember what occured after that
straight awful
then Romo became the starter and things got great again
all i can ask for is the team to be competitive, play hard, give everything, dont bicker stay a team, and at least go 8-8 to finish 500
im just being realisitic
then we go out in free agency and spend that paper, you know Jerry is
kill the draft like we always do (except 2006 and 2009)
then I see us being stacked
new head coach with balls too thats a f’n must

all the bandwagon fans that came back last year after 2008 will leave
all the fake fans will turn on us and leave
thats a plus for me
fake fans go when times get hard
im ready for the storm

but this is one of the top three hardest seasons to watch ever. I feel like I am watching my 5 year old son get his azz kicked around the field every weekend. The idiotic mistakes that come in waves, the spectacular big plays called back by penalties and the mind numbing big plays we give up at the worst times – OUCH.

I’ll be a supportive fan for life but I will admit that I disconnected a great deal of my emotion yesterday. I will watch and hope they give me something to cheer for but I can’t spend my sunday evenings destroyed like the last two weeks. These guys are killing my buzz but maybe the talent will overcome.

Good post.

so the up and down of the Cowboys has always been an exciting ride. Not always a fun time, but always interesting. The recent comments from some of the talking heads about the Cowboys being soft, mentally weak and just plain stupid are hard to take. The talent level on this team IS under performing. Mental toughness is something we will see over the next coming weeks. I hope the team responds with resolve and at the very least, plays a more discipline game. There is a lot to like about this team, but the stupid penalties and bonehead plays are killing them. The real fans remain fans no matter how frustrating things get.

rooting for the Cowboys since 1982 (when I was 6). My whole childhood is about losing and getting picked on at school by the Niner fans (my gym coach used to give me hell!). When we won that first Super Bowl it was the greatest feeling ever. I don’t think I have ever felt that happy in my life. And then a funny thing happened. All these Cowboys fans came out of nowhere and started ruining it. I always loved being one of the few in my area. I hate all the publicity that goes with the Cowboys now. I liked it back in the day when they were never on TV and my older brother would sneak me in to sports bars to catch the games.

Anyway, win or lose I love this team. The one and only time I distanced myself a bit was during the Parcell era. I hated him and think of him as a Giant, not a Cowboy. I was still a fan and rooted for them, but it wasn’t the same. To this day, I don’t understand why fans still quote Parcells or refer to him endearingly. Its crazy to me.

This current team provides a lot of entertainment, and thats more than I remember from growing up – Gary Hogeboom, Steve Pelluer, Babe Laufenberg? Come on, those were some rough times.

just one thing though

i endured the 1-15, 3-13, and three 5-11 seasons

and criticized the hell out of jerry jones, our moronic players, and our loser coaches during those years

but that doesn’t make me less of a fan, less loyal, or a bandwagon fan.

i want us to win — and win consistently. and i’m not gonna be some blind homer saying that it’s not the coaches fault or not the owner’s fault or not certain players fault when it most definitely is.

i will endure the ridicule of us sucking, but i won’t ever leave the fraternity of Cowboys fans worldwide.

even though we’ve got to be one of the top 5 stupidest teams in the NFL right now.

will change that.

One thing also to look at. If the playoffs started today, here are your NFC playoff bound teams:

New York Giants
Chicago Bears
Atlanta Falcons
Arizona Cardinals
Philadelphia Eagles
New Orleans Saints

Luckily, the regular season doesn’t end today and we have 6 games against 4 of these teams. We are still able to control our own destiny and make some noise. 1-4 isn’t good, but it isn’t over yet.

I’m not going to date myself but I was a fan when Meredith was the QB. So add that up. I guess I fell victim to the press before the season even started so the level of disappointment so far has been overwhelming to say the least. This team has the talent just not the execution for whatever reason. I have had to put up with ridicule before so no biggie. I patiently await the time when this team gets its’ head out of its’ ass and plays some serious football.
I’m not about to jump ship, I’ll watch every game and root for them just like I’ve done for years. The rewards have been lacking so far this season. Hell, the Rangers are keeping me from being depressed! That’s a first.

win 3 of 5 super bowls every team goes up and down u are in the NFC things couild be worse me as a BRONCOS fan if DENVER gets real good to make the super bowl we have to go through BALT NYJ PITT and INDY NE

I have a different view of things. Any Cowboys fan living in Philly has my respect & admiration. And if I lived in a place like that, i would probably feel similarly.
I have endured the bad times, enjoyed the good times, & reveled in the great times. I will continue to no matter what comes. I’ve been a Cowboys die-hard since The IceBowl days & I will always love the team.
 However, Something is wrong with the Dallas Cowboys. To refuse to admit that is simply denial. And reading jerrah’s statements in the press today, the denial at the top of the organization continues. What we have in Dallas is not a one season problem. It is organizational. Since JJones bought the team his only truly great move was to hire Jimmy. Jimmy built the mini dynasty of the 90’s & JJones ego tore it apart before its time.
  Since Jimmy’s players left, we have been a failure as a football organization. We have put a few decent teams on the field, mainly because of Parcells(JJones’ only other pretty good move). But we have a non-football man making our football decisions. He is our GM & organizational leader & he cannot be fired, regardless of how many decades(think about that concept) he fails the team.
 Not trying to rain on anyone’s parade. I actually think the current grouup of players has more heart than they get credit for. They are just poorly coached & poorly led, so they do dumb things consistently. And I’m not hoping to lose games to get draft choices…. that would make me an Eagles fan.
 I will watch/listen the games this year with one eye/ear closed, like I have many many years since Jimmy left. I will not spend my money on JJones product, but i will always support the Dallas Cowboys. We were once a proud football organization. We could be again one day.
 

have been out at sea on ships the last few seasons. So now I am home on vacation for this season and this is what I get to watch.

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“I am here to kick A@& and chew gum….and I’m all out of gum.”

its a little hard to watch all the self mutilation going on, but we can pull this around. Wade and Garrett’s careers depend on it

…the Cowboys have never gone more than 15 years without winning one. Well unless they have a miraculous turn around and win won again this February the mark will be 16 years (and counting).

It’s a shame really. It seems like they have a lot of the right pieces in place but continue to lose in the most stupid ways, (and not just this season).

I started watching the Cowboys at the beginning of the Danny White era, witnessing them lose 3 straight NFC Championship games, (to this day that 28-27 loss in to the Niners in the 81-82 NFC title game remains the most painful moment of my sports enthusiast life). I saw this team fade in the 2nd half the 80’s into the worst team in the NFL.
I remember being overjoyed at hearing about Jimmy Johnson’s hiring, (I had tremendous gut feeling that it was going to work). I watched as the team steadily improved over the next four years, culminating with a resounding victory in Super Bowl 27, as they youngest team in the NFL at the time. I figured they would win at least 3 probably 4 more. I was even more sure of this when they won a 2nd straight in the 93-94 season. All this changed of course when Jerry Jones decided that he needed to be a bigger part of things and Jimmy Johnson was let go.
Poof…
Just like that, the Cowboys were no longer the best team in football. Sure they were able to squeak out one last title in 95-96 but that team barely made it across the finish line, (the 49ers had their number that year and Dallas lucked out when Green Bay took care of San Fran for them one round earlier). Of the 5 Cowboy teams to take home the Vince Lombardi trophy that 95-96 group was easily the ugliest. So at that point the writing was on the wall. The run was over. Or was it…
Heading into the 98 season the Cowboys still had one of the NFL’s best defensive units but the offense needed another play maker. The triplets still had some gas left in the tank but they needed a new weapon on offense. Someone who could stretch the opponents’ defense and put the fear of god into them. They needed someone they could work with the NFL’s most accurate arm ever; revitalizing Troy’s career in the process. Find this guy and would it take that extra defender out of the box and give Emmitt open running lanes revitalizing his career. And Irving, he would no longer see double coverage, giving him one on one situations that would have revitalized his career. It just so happens that this near perfect fit for the Cowboys was theirs for the taking in the 98 draft in the form of Randy Moss.
When he actually fell to the Cowboys at the number 8 at spot in that year’s draft I remember jumping up and down, pumping my fist in the air. "Welcome to the Cowboys," I yelled, "welcome back to dominance Big D." But then something strange happened. Jerry in his infinite wisdom drafted Gregg Ellis. Who? What? Buehler? Are you kidding? There was a good chance that guy would have fallen to them in the 2nd round. And thus the Cowboys of the 90’s were truly done.
Most of us remember the dreadful, Campo years, and the subsequent splash of hope we felt w/ Parcels hiring.
Overall of it’s been a long history of ups and downs but…
This is the most angry I’ve ever been w/ a Cowboys team. The way this team is managed from the front office right on down to the last assistant is just infuriating. Last year’s team was not good enough to win a Super Bowl and they needed a couple personnel adjustments to put them over the top…
But not a single sensible move was made in this regard. The stupid brand of football these players play w/ is mind boggling.
Living in New England I see a lot of the local team’s games and they truly are one of the smartest teams in the NFL. They put a premium on intelligence and it shows on the field. They rarely ever beat themselves.
I will always be a Cowboys fan but this current bunch makes me look forward to basketball season.

I’m 15 and ain’t stopping now. Too much time dedicated to this team.

then you use negative language and rip fans that don’t have the same perspective as you?

By the way, I don’t think there are any bandwagon fans around here. The very nature of this site dismisses that idea. Just because someone is (very rightfully) disappointed in this team doesn’t make them less of a fan. They’re just dealing with a 1-4, sloppy play, reality.
Even the front page guys have been made speechless after these last 2 games. Are they bandwagoners too?
What kind of “bandwagon” fan joins a place like this and comments on a site like this?
     I found this piece to be negative and just as full of namecalling as the people it was supposedly criticizing.

j/k, I disagree with it, but whatever…right at the end of the post where it says “Add Comment” there’s 2 buttons, Rec or Flag (if you think it’s crossed a line) .